Mountain Quotes

“Great things are done when men and mountains meet; this is not done by jostling in the street.”
― William Blake

“Back then you carried your ashes to the mountain; would you now carry your fire into the alley?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“Mount Everest has a “death zone”. When a climber is in that zone, at very high altitude, he’s living on borrowed time. He will almost certainly need a good oxygen supply. All living tissue is starting to die (necrosis) thanks to the cold and the altitude. Unlike climbers, the higher that geniuses ascend, the more invigorated they become, the stronger their flesh and minds become. They experience the opposite of necrosis. They have entered the Life Zone.”
― Mike Hockney, HyperHumanity

“In the mountains you never leave anyone behind. For any reason. That's the way it is, and that's the way it has to be.”
― Luca D'Andrea, La sostanza del male

“spring dawn
blossoms lined
the mountain path”
― Meeta Ahluwalia

“As I keep on running
the sun goes down kissing me Good Night
with those twilight-lips
And in the dark,
moonlight becomes my night’s transport
on which I ride on behind the mountain trails”
― Munia Khan, Fireclay

“People living on the plains do not wonder what is happening on the top of the high mountain, but a person who climbs to the top of the high mountain wonders what is going on in the lowlands! Why? Because there is crowd and rush, ignorance and shouting, war and all kinds of stupidity down there!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Many people in Tucson, Arizona, USA, do not realize that they are living atop a 2,400’ mountain.”
― Steven Magee

“When you climb up to the highest point of a mountain, the mountain will climb down to your lowest point!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Hope is valuable. The smallest fraction of hope can grow into the abundant mountain you need to keep going.”
― Kaylee Stepkoski

“Sometimes, victory lies not so much in conquering the glorious mountain peak but in simply having survived through a fatal and deadly storm.”
― Hrishikesh Agnihotri, Enrich The World With Your Presence : HA's Original Quotes, Volume 01

“If you have seen a mountain that invites you to its summit, know that it is a beautiful mountain and its invitation is already that beauty itself!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“There is no mountain to high for mightiest force to move.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“To build the world’s largest telescope atop the sacred mountain of Mauna Kea in Hawaii requires getting past me, and I do not think professional astronomers will be successful in doing so.”
― Steven Magee

“Whether in the valley of despair, the mountain peak of victory, or somewhere in-between, we are called to maintain a constant, stable connection to God Almighty.”
― Jeremy Gove, Let's Be Honest: Living a Life of Radical, Biblical Integrity

“A woman of prayer can climb any mountain without fear, because prayer gives her courage.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman

“Are you an ‘Altidiot’?”
― Steven Magee

“Hormone disruption in high altitude workers is a dirty secret of professional astronomy.”
― Steven Magee

“There’s no geography in this story. Generally speaking, it takes place in three settings of national importance: the city, whether that one or another one; the mountains, where you take refuge when you’re attacked or you want to make war; and the village, which is for each and every one of us the ancestral home.”
― Kamel Daoud, The Meursault Investigation

“THEY LOOK AT MY MOUNTAIN AS THEIR MOUNTAIN LOOKS AT THEM

Why do you stare at my mountain when you have yours to climb?”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

“Faith is needed to move any mountain.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“A woman of prayer can climb any mountain without fear because prayer gives her courage.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman

“A mouse will climb a mountain just to get a piece of cheese”
― Charmaine J. Forde

“God will bore through mountains of intellect for a grain of faith - for it is not the intellectual who finds Him, but He who finds the intellectual.”
― Criss Jami

“The night presents its most magnificent gifts to the mountaineers who endure the biggest troubles!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“When you climb to the top of a mountain and still thinking about your own little problems rather than major universal issues, then you haven't climbed that mountain, you're still in the lower valleys!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Weakness whispers coldly to the warrior, 'You are not strong enough to climb this
mountain The warrior’s Triumph answers back, 'We are made from that which Shatters Mountains”
― Lady Alexis Essuman

“God is mighty to move any mountain.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Thorolf took possession of land between Staf River and Thors River, and called it Thorsness. He held the mountain on that headland so sacred that he called it Helgafell and no one was allowed even to look at it unless he'd washed himself first. So holy was the mountain, no living creature there, man or beast, could be harmed until they left of their own accord. Thorolf and his kinsmen all believed that they would go into the mountain when they died.”
― Hermann Pálsson, The Book of Settlements: Landnámabók

“Winfred Deben’s eyes yawed from the fire and gave Petey an icy glare so cold the lad pulled his cloak even tighter around his body and shivered a little. The old commander had a way of making grown men uncomfortable with just his eyes. They use to joke that Commander Deben could turn a river into a glacier just by looking at it. He was a stern man and he was not known to make jokes or take them well either.”
― J.R. Potts, Visitor on The Mountain